ART. 14. ] FISH AND FISHERIES.
and sale, be divided, one half to the sheriff or constable making the

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seizure, and the other half to the informer.
51. All fines imposed under this article shall go, one half to the
informer and the other half to the county where the fine is im-
posed.

Id s 33
1800, c 21, 1810,
c 36, 1819, c 175,
1826, c 96, 1841,
c 13, s 3, 1852,
c 125, s 1
Same

52. If any offence under this article is committed in a river di-
viding two counties, then the justice or court of either county shall
have jurisdiction, or if it is committed in the waters of the Chesa-
peake bay, then the justices or courts of any counties bordering on
that part of the bay shall have jurisdiction.

Id s 34
1820, c 199, s 4,
1842, c 67
Jurisdiction on
waters defined

53. If any person is arrested for any offence under this article,
and the fine is more than one hundred dollars, then the justice before
whom such person is brought shall commit such person, unless he
gives adequate bail to appear and answer such offence at the next
Circuit Court for the county.

PATAPSCO RIVER.

Id s 35
1806, c 70,
1845, c 148, s 3,
1852, c 125, 9 2
Commitment

54. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, to take?
capture, or destroy fish, by seine or seines, drag-net or drag-nets,
set-net or set-nets, dip-net or dip-nets, stir-net or stir-nets, fish-baskets
or fish-pots, eels, weirs, brush, or fascine nets, or any means or con-
trivances whatever of the nature of a seine, which are known to
destroy or capture fish, or to destroy or capture them by shooting
or striking through the ice, or otherwise than by hook and line, com-
monly known as angling, in the Patapsco river above tide-water

1874, c 79, s 1
Fish to be cap-
tured by hook
and line only
above tide-
water

55. The owner or owners of all dams, erected now or hereafter,
on said river, shall and are hereby required to make or cause to be
made, and keep in repair, proper fish-ladders, and have them placed
on said dam, so as to afford to the fish, in said river, free course up
and down said river.

Id s 2
Owners of dams
to keep fish-
ladders thereon

56. If the owner or owners of the aforesaid dams fail to comply
with the provisions of the preceding section, within sixty days from
the passage and approval of this act, they or either of them shall
be liable, upon conviction thereof, by summary process before any
justice of the peace of this State, in the county nearest or adjacent
to where the dam or darns are situated, to a penalty of not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, five dollars to the informer
and the balance to the board of county commissioners of the coun-
ties adjacent to said dam or dams, for school purposes.

Id s 3
Penalty for
failure

57. Any person or persons offending against the provisions of
the first section of this act shall be liable, upon conviction thereof,
by summary process before any justice of the peace of this State,
in and for the county where the act is committed, to a penalty of
not less than ten nor more than thirty dollars, one-third to the in-
former, one-third to the constable making the arrest, and the bal-
ance to the treasurer of the board of county school commissioners,
for school purposes, provided, that any person or persons so offend-
ing, on conviction thereof, as aforesaid, who shall refuse or fail to

Id s 4
Penalty for
violating first
section